[KULUA] How to tell what's stock and what's added in *buntu?

[Kendric Beachey]

Cool, this looks even better.  But just to make sure I understand, where
does the new required step go in relation to the other two?

Kendric Beachey


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Christofer C. Bell <
christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Nick Anderson <nick at cmdln.org> wrote:
>
>>  The thing I would like to do is get a list of the various pieces of
>>>> software I've installed over and above the stock selection that ships with
>>>> Edubuntu, so I can reduce the time spent redoing all that installation work.
>>>>  Does anyone know of a good way to get the system to tell you a list of all
>>>> the .debs you have installed beyond what it shipped with?
>>>>
>>>
>> Should be something like this
>>
>> sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep -vi kernel > installed-pkgs.txt
>>
>> Backup the file, install new system then
>> sudo dpkg --set-selections < installed-pkgs.txt
>
>
>
> Looks like I misunderstood the original question.  The above works (but is
> missing a required step) but comes with a caveat, as well.  This does not
> set the correct state of "autoinstalled" for packages that were pulled in as
> dependencies, meaning you will not be able to use aptitude to remove
> subsystems any more.  Every package will be marked as explicitly installed
> (and thus nothing will ever be a candidate for auto-removal).
>
> The required step is:
>
> $ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> This tells the system to bring the installed set of packages into
> compliance with the selections you set in the earlier commands (ie; nothing
> will actually be installed until you run this).  I'm not sure why you'd want
> to strip out the kernel packages, either.
>
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